Toronto animation studio takes on Ford scandal in spectacular fashion

Even his harshest critics would agree: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is a fighter.

Despite, well, everything that’s happened over the last year, the man refuses to back down. You’d think crack cocaine use admission, alleged drug house rendezvous, excess drinking, accusations of homophobic and racist language and other varieties of shady activity would be enough to get a mayor out of office — but not this guy.

Ford’s (perhaps ill-advised) resilience is parodied in fine fashion in Fordtacular Spectacular, a short film made by Toronto stop-motion animation studio Cuppa Coffee.

The hilarious video shows a bumbling Ford surviving everything thrown at him while referencing some of the more memorable themes and moments of the ongoing scandal — such as the time he walked into a camera, those Toronto Star front pages and a video tape labeled “Ford.”

Check it out:

The studio chose to focus on the positive, said Adam Shaheen, President and Executive Producer at Cuppa Coffee.

“We decided not to focus on the negative side because it’s sort of ‘been there, done that’ by other people,” he said in a video interview. “We wanted to stay away from ‘the fat guy who reportedly smoked crack’ but really tell the circus story.”

We’re not sure how a crack scandal, alcoholism and a buffet of food fits that mandate, but the animation makes this short a must-watch.